Hammerschmiede: Tortonian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Miopetaurista albanensis Major 1893
ssp. quiricensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Martes pusillus
Mammalia - Carnivora
Proputorius sansaniensis Filhol 1891
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aceratherium sp. Kaup 1834
Mammalia - Soricidae
Angustidens excultus n. sp. Mayr and Fahlbusch 1975
Mammalia - Talpidae
Desmanella quinquecuspidata n. sp. Mayr and Fahlbusch 1975
Mammalia - Plesiosoricidae
Plesiosorex aff. schaffneri Engesser 1972
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Amphilagus fontanessi
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Leptodontomys catalaunicus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber minutus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus bredai (von Meyer 1848)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtocricetus molassicus Fahlbusch and Mayr 1975
Democricetodon gaillardi Schaub 1925
ssp. freisingensis
Megacricetodon aff. debruijni Freudenthal 1968
Mammalia - Rodentia - Anomalomyidae
Anomalomys gaudryi Mein and Freudenthal 1971
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Myoglis larteti Baudelot 1966
Eomuscardinus aff. sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Microdyromys miocaenicus
Reptilia - Suliformes - Anhingidae
Anhinga pannonica (Lambrect 1916)
Mayr et al. 2020
original and current combination Plotus pannonicus
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Clemmydopsis sp. Boda 1927
Schleich 1984
Ocadia sp. Gray 1870
Schleich 1984
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Schleich 1984
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Schleich 1984
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Leuciscus sp. Cuvier 1817
Scardinius sp. Sauvage 1873
Actinopteri - Esociformes - Esocidae
Esocidae indet. (Cuvier 1817)
Bivalvia - Unionida - Margaritiferidae
Margaritifera flabellata (Goldfuss 1837)
ssp. bavarica
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bavaria
Coordinates: 47.9° North, 10.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.7° North, 10.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian Mammal zone: MN 8
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Upper Freshwater Molasse
Stratigraphy comments: early late Miocene, Tortonian, MN 8, regional stratigraphic levels HAM 5 (11.62 Ma) and HAM 4 (11.44 Ma) [37].
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Hammerschmiede clay pit
Database number:34256
Authorizer:J. Hunter, E. Vlachos, L. van den Hoek Ostende, M. Uhen Enterer:M. Hall, E. Vlachos, L. van den Hoek Ostende, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-08-24 16:14:12 Last modified:2020-12-12 17:58:58
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-24 16:14:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9004.5% 34460H. Mayr and V. Fahlbusch. 1975. Eine unterpliozäne Kleinsäugerfauna aus der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung fur Paläontologie und historische Geologie 15:91-111 [J. Hunter/M. Hall/L. van den Hoek Ostende]

Secondary references:

74749 G. Mayr, T. Lechner, and M. Böhme. 2020. The large-sized darter Anhinga pannonica (Aves, Anhingidae) from the late Miocene hominid Hammerschmiede locality in Southern Germany. PLoS One 15(5):e0232179 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
66150 H.H. Schleich. 1984. Neogene Testudines of Germany. Their stratigraphical and ecological evaluation. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia (Studia Palaeocheloniologica 1), volumen especial 1:249-267 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]